Friday, October 24, 2014

My first impression of red
underpaintings was that they were something of a make-work project for artists
working with oils or acrylics. But then I noticed that there are wonderful
effects to be achieved by leaving just the right flashes of an underpainting exposed,
and of course, I wanted to try one.

As this technique is not really open
to watercolour painters, I decided to try something that might simulate the
result… Starting by drawing the picture in a complementary-coloured wax (paint-resisting)
crayon. Given the colours I planned to use to complete the painting, orange
seemed like a better choice than red for the fake underpainting, and Banff
Springs Hotel is the result.

About Me

Charlene Brown is a Canadian painter who started writing about painting trips during the ten years she and her husband lived in Dubai. The Gulf Weekly began publishing her accounts of painting trips in that part of the Arabian peninsula -- then said they might consider other countries, even such exotic locations as Canada! She had written about painting trips in over twenty countries by the time her husband retired and they returned to Canada to live.